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refitman wrote:

AngryAsWell wrote:

yahyah wrote:Off topic but I'd appreciate views from people who use Kindles etc.

Having previously sworn I'd never buy a digital reading device, the time is coming where I may need to dip my toes into the water and use one for a project I'm working on.

Any recommendations/warnings about which brands to avoid would be gratefully received.

My grandson uses his phone to access Google Books, buy's what he wants and downloads them to the phone where he stores them to read or pops them over to his computer for later reading (after transferring back to the phone).

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I do the same, using a mix of the Kindle app, Kobo, Google Books and a separate ebook app. An actual Kindle will be much easier to read though.

refitman wrote:

refitman wrote:

AngryAsWell wrote: My grandson uses his phone to access Google Books, buy's what he wants and downloads them to the phone where he stores them to read or pops them over to his computer for later reading (after transferring back to the phone).

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I do the same, using a mix of the Kindle app, Kobo, Google Books and a separate ebook app. An actual Kindle will be much easier to read though.

This is what it looks like on my phone:

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This is close to actual size, albeit a bit fuzzier.

RogerOThornhill wrote:This is quite funny.

Gary Lineker’s critics just can’t handle freedom of speech

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/2016 ... of-speech/

There, in microcosm, you see how debate has changed in this country. Everyone’s switched sides.

Because, until quite recently, it was the socially conservative who complained that “you can’t say anything nowadays” without causing outrage among the socially liberal. Now, it’s the socially liberal who complain that “you can’t say anything nowadays” without causing outrage among the socially conservative.

It’s fascinating: a complete role reversal. What are the people calling for Lineker to lose his job, after all, if not hyper-sensitive “special snowflakes” who are trying to “no-platform” someone, merely because he expressed an opinion they didn’t like? Why do they find the word racist so “triggering”? Is their generation so cosseted it can’t handle a bit of criticism? Can’t Lineker even mention immigration without people jumping down his throat? Aren’t they just shutting down debate about his legitimate concerns, by taking offence and playing the victim card? Whatever happened to freedom of speech?

Honestly. It’s political incorrectness gone mad.

Quite.

tinyclanger2 wrote:I, Daniel Blake - looking forward to seeing it.

tinyclanger2 wrote:haven't been able to yet.
limited cinematorial access.

PorFavor wrote:What a depressing day, politically\televisually. I had the misfortune to catch James Delingpole and some other lunatic (Neil someone? I was too depleted to pay attention) ranting about refugees who (might) have had the gall to outlive their childhood.

http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/724279 ... ut-Britain" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Farage blasts bullying banks for NOT ACCEPTING Brexit amid threat to pull cash out of UK

http://www.breitbart.com/london/2016/10 ... rade-deal/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;?
LONDON (Reuters) – Britain could slash its headline corporation tax rate to 10 percent from 20 percent if the European Union refuses to agree a post-Brexit free trade deal or blocks UK-based financial services firms from accessing its market, the Sunday Times reported, citing an unidentified source.

tinyclanger2 wrote:Have just returned from tour of mate's new house.
There is a garden.
(not even remotely jealous much emoticon)

PaulfromYorkshire wrote:BBCBreaking: Jimmy Perry, creator of one of TV's most popular comedy series, Dad's Army, has died aged 93… " onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; …

A think tank established by @Owen_PatersonMP to produce a conservative policy platform for the 2020 General Election.

Panel:
Rt Hon Owen Paterson MP, Chairman UK 2020
Professor Karol Sikora, Dean and Professor of Medicine, University of Buckingham and Fellow of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge
James Bartholomew, author The Welfare of Nations
Dr Fiona Payne, General Practitioner, NHS GP Appraiser,
Dr Kristian Niemietz, Head of Health and Welfare, Institute of Economic Affairs

In 2010, Fiona moved into the independent medical sector with a GP colleague, Dr Justine Setchell, setting up their Private GP practice, GPatLondon W1, initially based in Harley Street, and now at King Edward VII's Hospital. In 2012, they developed an innovative online private medical consultation software called GPatHome.com for which they received an Angel Academe Entrepreneur award in 2015.

AngryAsWell wrote:Yorkshire academy chain defends spending more than £300,000 on IT deal with firm run by its own boss

http://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/edu ... -1-8196191" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

http://www.outlookindia.com/newswire/st ... ses/959382" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;?
Britain's Queen Elizabeth II faces massive losses on her royal estate following the country's vote to leave the European Union (EU), a media report claimed today.
Sandringham Estate, the British monarch's country retreat in Norfolk, will lose close to 700,000 pounds a year when EU farming subsidies end while the farms near Windsor Castle will be around 300,000 pounds down, the Sunday Telegraph reported.

AngryAsWell wrote:

Your star sign has almost definitely changed

https://www.indy100.com/article/your-st ... yeJHzBFNmb" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Alex Andreou ‏@sturdyAlex 10h10 hours ago

I could never have a serious relationship with anyone who believes in star signs. Or with a Taurus.

https://www.theguardian.com/travel/2016 ... nt-inquiry" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Public parks face ‘nightmare’ funding crisis
Less money and more demand mean that Britain’s urban green spaces are in decline. Now a parliamentary inquiry will assess the threat

RogerOThornhill wrote:

PaulfromYorkshire wrote:BBCBreaking: Jimmy Perry, creator of one of TV's most popular comedy series, Dad's Army, has died aged 93… " onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; …

Mastermind 2030
"In what year did..."
"2016. the answer's always 2016"

Sad. But hey, 93...

AngryAsWell wrote:Yorkshire academy chain defends spending more than £300,000 on IT deal with firm run by its own boss

http://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/edu ... -1-8196191" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Peter Bell
‏@peterbellswfc

@JohnGRoberts @rrunsworth some garbage there. I manage Wakefield Councils Clerking Service. We weren't invited to tender and are 50% cheaper

@rrunsworth @miconm @JohnGRoberts Given that the LA clerked prior to academisation you'd think we'd have been aware of the clerking tender

the week wrote:
Brexit leaders "ganging up" on Theresa May.

AngryAsWell wrote:The Death of British Business
Simon Head

A long - and scary - read

http://www.nybooks.com/daily/2016/10/18 ... -business/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

tinyclanger2 wrote:

http://www.breitbart.com/london/2016/10 ... rade-deal/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;?
LONDON (Reuters) – Britain could slash its headline corporation tax rate to 10 percent from 20 percent if the European Union refuses to agree a post-Brexit free trade deal or blocks UK-based financial services firms from accessing its market, the Sunday Times reported, citing an unidentified source.

That would mean reducing total tax receipts by 5% which is c. 25 billion quid a year
https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/s ... _Final.pdf" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
which is 481 million quid a week. Which is - hang on - yes it's MORE than the already fictitious 350 million quid a week.

Well colour me sideways. Who'd have thought.

refitman wrote:

AngryAsWell wrote:

Your star sign has almost definitely changed

https://www.indy100.com/article/your-st ... yeJHzBFNmb" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Alex Andreou ‏@sturdyAlex 10h10 hours ago

I could never have a serious relationship with anyone who believes in star signs. Or with a Taurus.

AngryAsWell wrote:I, Daniel Blake: the trailer for Ken Loach's Palme d'Or-winner – video

In Ken Loach’s I, Daniel Blake, the titular Daniel is a carpenter out of work after a heart attack, attempting to claim benefits through a welfare system that’s designed to trip him at every turn. I, Daniel Blake, which won the Palme d’Or at last month’s Cannes film festival, stars Dave Johns and Hayley Squires and is released in the UK on 21 October

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adam wrote:

PorFavor wrote:

AngryAsWell wrote:I, Daniel Blake: the trailer for Ken Loach's Palme d'Or-winner – video

In Ken Loach’s I, Daniel Blake, the titular Daniel is a carpenter out of work after a heart attack, attempting to claim benefits through a welfare system that’s designed to trip him at every turn. I, Daniel Blake, which won the Palme d’Or at last month’s Cannes film festival, stars Dave Johns and Hayley Squires and is released in the UK on 21 October

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I heard Mark Kermode reviewing it (BBC News Channel) and he described the system that the main characters were up against in the most scathing of terms.

I'm now waiting for calls for him to be sacked.

Edited to add the BBC bit

adam wrote:

adam wrote:

PorFavor wrote: I heard Mark Kermode reviewing it (BBC News Channel) and he described the system that the main characters were up against in the most scathing of terms.

I'm now waiting for calls for him to be sacked.

Edited to add the BBC bit

I sent a couple of emails to the show this week, and in the podcast bit at the end Simon Mayo said "Adam" and then Kermode spent five more minutes quoting bits of Young Frankenstein, and they never got back to the email.

Could be worse; Could be raining.